# topar
## Asturian
### Verb

topar (first-person singular indicative present topo, past participle topáu)
* Alternative form of atopar

#### Conjugation
## Catalan
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [tuˈpa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [toˈpa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [toˈpaɾ]
* Homophones: topà, tupà, tupar
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topí, past participle topat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
* (transitive, intransitive) to crash
* to run into, to come across
** 2019 August 11, Gemma Sardà, “El meu veí el músic”, in La Vanguardia‎:A la ciutat podem passar anys i panys sense intercanviar ni mitja paraula amb qui topem dia per altre.In the city we can go ages without exchanging even half a word with those we run into every other day.

#### Derived terms

* retopar
* topada
* topadís
* topall
* topament
* topants

### Further reading

* “topar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “topar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “topar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “topar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Anagrams

* àtrop, optar, parot, partó, patró, porat, porta, portà, potra, tarpó, tropa

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toˈpaɾ/

### Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)
* Alternative form of atopar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

## Ladino
### Verb

topar (Latin spelling)
* to find
* (reflexive) to be found, to be located
    Synonym: (Monastir) iscuntrar
** 2019, Şeli GAON, “Viyaje A Andalusia - 2”, in Şalom‎:La maale de los djudyos se topa en el sentro de la sivdad vyeja, toda la kaleja golyendo al miskle de flores, las plasas kon las pisinas, los arvoles de portokales kon los kortijos finos avyertos para ke los turistos vijiten.The Jewish district is located in the center of the old city, the whole street smelling of a mixture of flowers, the plazas with the swimming pools, the orange trees with the fine open patios for the tourists to visit.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *to-od-bur, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to brew, boil”). However, compare inbhir (“mouth of a river”). Synonymous with tipra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtobar/

### Noun

topar m
* well
* spring

#### Inflection

Masculine o-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | topar | topar$^L$ | topair$^L$ |
| Vocative | topair | topar$^L$ | topru$^H$ |
| Accusative | topar$^N$ | topar$^L$ | topru$^H$ |
| Genitive | topair$^L$ | topar | topar$^N$ |
| Dative | topar$^L$ | topraib | topraib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Derived terms

* toparach

#### Descendants

* Irish: tobar
* Manx: çhibbyr
* Scottish Gaelic: tobar

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tobar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish topar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /toˈpa(ʁ)/ [toˈpa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /toˈpa(ʁ)/ [toˈpa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /toˈpa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /toˈpa(ʁ)/ [toˈpa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /toˈpa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈpaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈpaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tuˈpa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: to‧par

### Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)
* (transitive) to come across, encounter
    Synonyms: achar, encontrar
* (transitive, colloquial, Portugal) to understand
    Synonym: perceber
* (transitive, colloquial, Brazil) to accept (an invitation, a challenge etc.)
    Synonym: aceitar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

### Anagrams

* optar, parto, porta, potra, prato, rapto, trapo, tropa

## Spanish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound made by two objects knocking into one another.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toˈpaɾ/ [t̪oˈpaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: to‧par

### Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topé, past participle topado)
* (transitive) to come across, encounter
    Synonyms: encontrar, hallar
* (transitive) to knock against, hit, strike, touch
    Synonyms: chocar, tocar
* (transitive, colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador) to finish (a videogame)
    ¿Ya topaste el nuevo juego que compraste?Did you already finish the new game you bought?
* (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to confront (someone)
    Synonym: confrontar
    Topá al maestro si no te quiere subir las notas.Confront the teacher if he doesn't want to raise your grades.
* (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to grope (To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually); to engage in heavy petting.
    Había un pareja topándose entre ellos en el bus.There was a couple groping each other on the bus.
    Me topé a mi novio en mi casa.I groped my boyfriend at my house.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* topalo
* toparse con

### Further reading

* “topar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

topar
* (transitive) to fall

#### Conjugation

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.